“The clock is ticking. Patients don’t have time. They want answers, they want cures,” Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told reporters before House debate began. He said he expected “a pretty big bipartisan vote” for the measure.

“They didn’t send us here to whimper, whine or grovel,” she said on the Senate floor about Democrats, using the populist rhetoric that has given her one of her party’s highest profiles. “They sent us here to say no to efforts to sell Congress to the highest bidder.”

“I don’t know how much of that, and I mean it sincerely, is going to be affected,” she told The Associated Press in an interview. She said she’s encouraging Trump’s administration to look at Arizona’s model because it is so cost-effective.

“Food advocates are already nostalgic for the Obama era and will be playing defense for the next four years,” says Sam Kass, a former White House senior adviser on nutrition and personal chef for the Obamas.